Gary Bettman Quotes

Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.

I felt like if I wasn't around, maybe my shot would be gone.

It's been sickening how much money I've passed up.

I blew a chance at a million dollars.

Nothing is so often and so irrevocably missed as the opportunity which crops up daily.

Who seeks, and will not take, when once 'tis offer'd, Shall never find it more.

I'd let my golden chances pass me by.

A good opportunity is seldom presented, and is easily lost.

Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been; I am also call'd No-more, Too-late, Farewell.

The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action passed, by, as a loss of power.

What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.

I thought that if the right time gets missed, if one has refused or been refused something for too long, it's too late, even if it is finally tackled with energy and received with joy. Or is there no such thing as "too late"? Is there only "late," and is "late" always better than "never"? I don't know.

Regret of neglected opportunity is the worst hell that a living soul can inhabit.

Undeveloped, the whole thing,tossed into a box before we really had a chance to know what we had, and that's why we broke up.

Everybody has their moment of great opportunity in life. If you happen to miss the one you care about, then everything else becomes eerily easy.

We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting

Opportunity is lost by deliberation.

Style helps distinguish you . . . It's a great potential opportunity that people tend to leave by the wayside

All the opportunities you let slip by! The idea, the inspiration just doesn´t come fast enough. Instead of being open, you´re closed up tight. That´s the worst sin of all - the sin of omission.

Everybody has noticed the way cats stop and loiter in a half-open door. Hasn't everyone said to a cat: For heavens sake why don't you come in? With opportunity half-open in front of them, there are men who have a similar tendency to remain undecided between two solutions, at the risk of being crushed by fate abruptly closing the opportunity. The overprudent, cats as they are, and because they are cats, sometimes run more danger than the bold

During their lifetimes, every man and woman will stumble across a great opportunity. Sadly, most of them will simply pick themselves up, dust themselves down and carry on as if nothing ever happened.

But to deny fate is arrogance, to declare that we are the sole shapers of our existence is madness;if you deny fate life becomes the series of missed opportunities, a regret for what never was and could have been, a remorse of what was not done and could have been done, and the present is wasted, twisted into another missed oppurtunity.

The time to begin most things is ten years ago.

Nothing is so irretrievably missed as an opportunity we encounter every day.